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Bibby Marine Services has assigned a contract with Dutch shipbuilder Damen for a purpose-built service operations vessel (SOV) to serve the offshore wind market.

18th January 2016

Bibby Marine and Damen contract for new SOV

18th January 2016

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Norway’s Maritime Partner AS has signed a contract with Buksér og Berging AS for the delivery of two pilot boats, including an option for a further eight vessels. Including the options, the…

15th January 2016

Pilot boat contract

15th January 2016

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Alicat Workboats in Great Yarmouth, UK has received an order from Dalby Offshore for the purchase of a brand new 26 metre aluminium Wind Farm Service Vessel. The vessel is due for…

15th January 2016

‘Dalby Ouse’

15th January 2016

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Japan-headquartered classification society ClassNK has issued Statements of Compliance (SoC) to two ship recycling facilities in Gujarat, India.

15th January 2016

ClassNK issues SoC to two additional ship recycling facilities in India

15th January 2016

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Announced in the wake of the recent terror attack in Istanbul, the SMM Istanbul conference and exhibition, previously mentioned in ‘MJ’ News will now not be held in 2016.

13th January 2016

SMM Istanbul cancelled

13th January 2016

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Bilbao-based Iberdrola has awarded Baker Consultants a contract to provide an underwater noise and marine mammal activity monitoring service.

13th January 2016

Baker Consultants wins marine noise monitoring contract

13th January 2016

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Royal HaskoningDHV has been working on new fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) lock gates at the Wilhelmina canal in Tilburg, the Netherlands.

12th January 2016

Royal HaskoningDHV FRP lock gates

12th January 2016

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Sea Level Research, based in the UK, has received a £200,000 investment to help bring its new sea level predicting software to the market.

8th January 2016

Backing secured for shipping software

8th January 2016

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To further strengthen its position in the offshore renewable power generation and transportation market, Belgian dredging major DEME has started the construction of the multipurpose vessel ‘Living Stone’.

7th January 2016

‘Living Stone’ keel laid

7th January 2016

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The Port of London Authority (PLA) has appointed Bob Baker as chief harbour master. Bob Baker will join the PLA from Forth Ports, where he has been chief harbour master since 2001.

7th January 2016

PLA Chief Harbour Master

7th January 2016

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Sartech is now approved to service both the McMurdo and Kannad ranges of EPIRBs, PLBs, AIS MOB devices and SARTs, and now the UK- headquartered company claims to be the only specialist…

7th January 2016

McMurdo & Kannad join Sartech stable

7th January 2016

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The founders of Chronos in the UK and UrsaNav in the US have formed a new joint venture with the aim of establishing Loran on a commercial basis as a back-up system…

7th January 2016

eLoran joint venture

7th January 2016

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Dutch companies KOTUG International B.V and Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V have reached an agreement on the merger of their European harbour towage operations.

7th January 2016

KOTUG and Boskalis establish joint venture

7th January 2016

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UK based Ocean Signal has appointed Marinplus AB as its exclusive distributor in Sweden.

6th January 2016

Ocean Signal appoints Marinplus AS

6th January 2016

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It is with regret that we report the death of Jim Wilson CBE who died in December after a short battle with Cancer. Jim was widely known and respected throughout the UK…

5th January 2016

Jim Wilson CBE

5th January 2016

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The construction of the Port of Rotterdam’s Maasvlakte 2 expansion has been recognised by the award of the Prof. dr. ir. J.F. Agema Prize, which is awarded every five years to an…

5th January 2016

Award for Maasvlakte 2

5th January 2016

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UK based AST Maritime Sciences has won a contract to supply CWind with AST-Planned Maintenance System software on board its fleet of vessels.

5th January 2016

AST Marine contract to supply CWind

5th January 2016

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The first national workshop under the Global Maritime Energy Efficiency Partnerships (GloMEEP) project has been held in Georgia.

4th January 2016

GloMEEP project gets underway

4th January 2016

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The Thames Class Lifeboat Trust is a new charity set up to refurbish an ex-RNLI lifeboat which was built in Lowestoft, for use as a community resource and youth training vessel.

31st December 2015

Lifeboat refurbishment project

31st December 2015

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The UKs Associated British Ports (ABP) has achieved the international standard for energy management, ISO 5000:2011.

30th December 2015

ABP achieves energy management standard

30th December 2015